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This page lists notable bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle part manufacturing companies.. Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g., Nishiki), sometimes designing the bike, specifying the equipment, and providing quality control.
Phoenix exports bicycles to more than 50 countries and earns more than US$60 million annually. [1] Since then the trademark Phoenix, one of the first top-ten well-known trademarks in China, has been registered in 104 countries. Phoenix bicycle is the Chinese Nation’s special-supported export product. When foreign leaders visited China they ...
Cyclists at a park in Shenzhen.Many ride yellow bikes owned by Ofo, a popular bike-sharing service.. Cycling is a common form of transportation and recreation in China, although use of bicycles has significantly declined since the 1970s and 1980s, when the country was nicknamed the "Kingdom of Bicycles" (自行车王国; Zìxíngchē wángguó).
It was named "ofo" due to the word's resemblance to a cyclist on a bicycle. [6] [7] [8] ofo was launched in June 2015 in Beijing, gaining 20,000 users and 2,000 bicycles by October with investment funding from a Peking University alumnus. [9] In 2016, ofo expanded to other cities in China, and had a fleet of 85,000 bicycles by the end of the year.
China's primary state oil & gas entity. CNPC was overtaken by Amazon and slipped from #4 to #5 in 2023. 6 Sinopec Group: $471,154.2 527,487 China's second-largest state-owned fossil fuel company. Sinopec specialises in refining crude oil into a variety of consumer products. 13 China State Construction Engineering: $305,884.5 382,492
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These Nishiki models, though manufactured outside Japan (e.g., in Taiwan, by Giant Bicycles and possibly in Italy by Colnago, Olmo or Viner) often carried the name Nashiki and some of the same model names as had been used on the Kuwahara-built bicycles. [7] The brand name Nishiki was retired by Derby in 2001 in North America. [8]
Dahon is the world's largest manufacturer of folding bicycles [5] [need quotation to verify] with a two-thirds marketshare in 2006. [6] The company was founded in 1982 by David T. Hon, a former laser physicist, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with assembly factories in China, Macau and Bulgaria. [7]